Donald (Andy) Bird
Garrison Manager
United States Army Garrison-Miami

Andy Bird was assigned as the Garrison Manager for Miami on 24 July 2014. He retired from the United States Army in 2005 as an Infantry Colonel with over 27 years of service.

He returned to Federal service as the Deputy to the Garrison Commander, Fort Hood TX in 2007. During the years 2009-2012, he was assigned as Chief of Staff in Heidelberg Germany for IMCOM Europe. He returned to Fort Hood in 2012, as the Deputy Garrison Commander, and served two years before his current assignment at US Army Garrison Miami.

Andy was commissioned as an Infantry 2nd Lieutenant after graduating from The Citadel in 1979. He has served in a variety of command and staff assignments in the United States as well as Germany, Korea, Kuwait and Iraq. He has commanded combat Infantry units from platoon to battalion level and has served on staffs from battalion to corps level along with a national level joint staff assignment with the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1994. He deployed to Iraq, OIF-I 2003-2004, in support of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad. He served as III Corps G3 in 2003 and was Chief of Plans and Exercises in 2002. He capped off his active duty career at Ft. Hood as the Chief of Staff for III Corps until his retirement in 2005.

He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from The Citadel as well as two Masters Degrees—one in Business Management, and the other in Strategic Studies and Policy. He is a graduate of the Infantry Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, Command and General Staff College and the US Marine Corps War College.

He has been married for 35 years to his lovely wife, Joby and together they have one son, Aaron and a daughter-in-law, Jessica.